The 6ha site on an oil palm estate off Jalan Besar, Machang Bubok, made news after mounds of solid waste, construction debris and other garbage had been dumped by lorries on it.
He promised stern action against anyone found allowing their land to be illegal dumpsites, saying a special team had been formed to looked into it. “The dumping site had been there a long time before we came to power. In 2010, I personally led an operation there to close down the dumpsite,” Phee said, referring to the then Pakatan Rakyat coalition taking over power in 2008.
“They’d say ‘oh you’re going to give me compound notice? I’ll pay RM250 for it to finish the story’. For them, they have got nothing to lose. “Our special committee will initiate immediate and long-lasting enforcement action on all these sites, together with the local governments in the nearest time,” he said.